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Andromeda and the Milky Way: A Merger of Galactic Proportions

• dang 12y ago
  Url changed from http://www.nytimes.com/video/science/100000002906469/colliding-galaxies.html http://www.nytimes.com/video/science/100000002906469/collidi..., which points to this. In general HN prefers text to video.
  • eyeface 12y ago
    The original link suits me better, as I've hit the article limit. The video link works fine.
  • ColdHawaiian 12y ago
    I see, thank you. I'm sorry that I forgot to put "[video]" in the original title too, but of course that doesn't matter anymore.
• privong 12y ago
  FWIW, this result came out in 2012[0,1]. This NYT piece seems like it's just trying to use the non-event of the Swift/BAT detection[2] in M31 with with some other random M31 information to make a story. Unfortunately, there's not any new information in this NYT piece. [0] (Nature summary of results) http://www.nature.com/news/andromeda-on-collision-course-with-the-milky-way-1.10765 http://www.nature.com/news/andromeda-on-collision-course-wit... [1] (preprint of results) http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.6865 http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.6865 [2] http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=5211327&cid=47107299 http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=5211327&cid=4710...